Posts Tagged ‘alpine’
Gulf of Slides sunrise
Sunrise over the Gulf of Slides on Mount Washington from Wildcat Ski Area, New Hampshire. Photo Details: Canon 5D on Manfrotto 055CX PRO tripod, EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM at 165mm, 1/80s at f/4 and ISO 100.
Read more...New Mount Washington Panoramics
On March 16, 2010 I skinned up Wildcat to photograph the east side of Mount Washington before the spring thaw came. While it wasn’t a perfectly clear sunrise, there was some nice dawn light and alpenglow. Here are two panoramics I created from photos taken that morning. They both show the main features of Mount…
Read more...Diagonal
Ryman McLane telemark skiing a steep gully near Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington. I’ve heard this gully called either Diagonal or Stovepipe and it’s located skier’s right of Dodge’s Drop. Whatever you want to call it, Diagonal or Stovepipe is steep and not often in good condition. Photo Details: Canon 5D w/ 17-40mm f/4 L…
Read more...Mount Eisenhower Sunset
This photo was taken during an amazing sunset in September of 2001, the main peak on the right is Mount Eisenhower in the southern Presidential Range. I did a small amount of Photoshop work to clean up the scan; but, yes, it did look like this. Photo Details: Nikon F80 SLR and Fuji slide film.
Read more...49:24
This is Tom Danielson setting the course record (49:24) during the Mount Washington Bicycle Hillclimb on August 24, 2002. Some stats for the course:-7.6 miles-4720 feet of elevation gain-average grade of 11.9% and maximum of 22% Photo Details: Most likely taken with a Nikon F80 SLR and Fuji slide film.
Read more...King Ravine
Dave Murphy skiing a King Ravine gully on Mount Adams in the northern Presidential Range in New Hampshire. April 9, 2008. Photo Details: Canon 5D w/ EF 17-40mm f/4 L USM lens at 17mm, 1/640s at f/8 and ISO 100.
Read more...Star Lake
Star Lake on June 4, 2005. Located at 4896′ in the col between Mount Madison and Mount Adams in the Northern Presidential Range of New Hampshire. Photo Details: Nikon D2X on tripod w/ 12-24mm DX lens at 14mm, Singh-Ray graduated neutral density filter, 0.4s at f/16 and ISO 100.
Read more...The Winds
Does camping get much better than this? This is the spot where I spent a week in August 2006 in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. This is the Deep Lake area and that’s Haystack Mountain. On the right side of the face is a 4th class descent route called the Grassy Goat Path. The…
Read more...Tux
Many areas of New England recorded their first snowfall in the past few days; so I thought a winter teaser photo from March 10, 2009 would be appropriate. Meathead Films skiers Ben Leoni and Stacey Rachdorf heading up into Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington, New Hampshire. I have to comment that I was really impressed…
Read more...Fall in the Alpine Zone
Fall colors on the Alpine Garden Trail, September 24, 2009. After staring at the computer for most of the morning yesterday I had to get outside for some exercise. The weather looked like it would hold on Mount Washington for the afternoon; so my route looked like this: Pinkham Notch (2pm)>Tuckerman Ravine Trail>Huntington Ravine Trail>Henderson…
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